Classics Subject Guide
Curator of Special Collections / Archivist
- Jessy Randall
- Tutt Library (2nd floor South)
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- Reference sources
- Ancient texts available online
- Finding books in the library and elsewhere
- Finding articles
- Course guides
Reference sources
If you’re not sure where to begin, or need some general information on a Classics topic, these reference sources (some in paper, some online) might help:
Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Reference DE5 .N4813 2002
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Reference DE5 .O9 2003
A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell, Scott, and Jones), Reference PA445.E5 L6 1996 (plus many other Greek/English dictionaries in with similar call numbers)
Oxford Latin Dictionary, Reference PA2365.E5 O9 (plus many other Latin/English dictionaries with similar call numbers)
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Reference DE59 .P7
Useful Gale Virtual Reference Library titles include:
Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Mythology
History in Dispute Vol. 20: Classical Antiquity and Classical Studies
World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them
World Eras Vol. 6: Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E.
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras (Vol. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome 1200 B.C.E.-476 C.E.)
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages (Vol. 1: The Ancient World)
Ancient texts available online
The Perseus Digital Library is an extremely useful website linking to the full text of about 500 classical works plus secondary works and more.
You may also want to use thelatinlibrary.com/.
Finding books in this library and others
Searching
To find books on your topic,
For books not available at CC, try Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog . You can request books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) from libraries all over the state, and they’ll show up at the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.
For materials not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can make requests through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat .
If you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat, please ask me or any librarian — that’s what we’re here for.
The Loeb Classical Library is a large set of classical texts in both their original language and English. Each book at Tutt is cataloged in Tiger, or you can browse the PA3612 section of the North Basement.
Browsing
When you go the shelf, make sure to look at the books sitting near the one you’re after. Serendipity is often the most successful method (if you can call it a method) of finding things.
You may particularly want to wander around in the PA (Greek language and literature; Latin language and literature) or BL (Mythology) sections of the stacks.
Finding Articles
Good databases for Classics:
- Humanities International Complete
- Coverage: 1929 - current
- A comprehensive humanities database, with almost 500 full text titles and indexing and abstracting for more than 1,700 titles. Subject areas include (but are not limited to) literature, philosophy, the arts, history, culture-oriented and multi-disciplinary humanities titles with some coverage going back as far as 1929. This database replaces Humanities Abstracts.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- L'année Philologique
- Coverage: 1969 - 1999
- Standard index to monographs, journals and essay collections in classics (Ancient Greek and Roman language, literature, history and religion), covering essentially all books and about 1,500 periodicals published each year in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese. Citations only, in English or French.
Some Classics periodicals available full-text from Tutt in paper or online: